March 2022 - A Life Through Books

Thursday, March 31, 2022

Virtual Book Tour: A Kind and Savage Place by Richard Helms #blogtour #giveaway #interview #historical #mystery #rabtbooktours @rickhelmsauthor @RABTBookTours
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Historical Mystery

Date Published: 03-01-2022

Publisher: New Arc Books / Level Best Books



It's 1954. The place is Prosperity, North Carolina, a small farming community in Bliss County. Three teenagers, the 1953 championship-winning offensive backfield for Prosperity High, are unwilling participants in a horrific event that results in a young man’s death.

One of the friends harbors a tragic secret that could have prevented the crime. Divulging it would ruin his life, so he stays quiet, fully aware he will carry a stain of guilt for the rest of his life.

The three buddies go their separate ways for almost a decade, before another tragedy brings them back to Prosperity in 1968. Now in their thirties, it is a time of civil and racial unrest in America.

They discover the man who committed murder back in ’54 is now the mayor, and rules the town with an autocratic iron fist. He’s backed by his own private force of sheriff's deputies and forcibly intimidates and silences any malcontents.

Worse, now he's set his sights on Congress.

A Kind and Savage Place spans half a century from 1942 to 1989 and examines the dramatic racial and societal turmoil of that period through the microcosmic lens of a flyspeck North Carolina agricultural community.







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1.   What is the hardest part of writing your books?

 


As I’ve stated in many interviews, I’m a hardcore pantser, meaning I never really know when I start out where a story is going. I do have a vague idea of the plot trajectory, but it’s usually in the form of a concept rather than an actual plot with fully fleshed-out character arcs and motivations and whatnot. I usually start with a conversation between two people--one has a problem, and the other might provide the solution. I allow the story to evolve organically from there.

This process works marvelously for my genre crime fiction, even if it frequently results in dead-end plotlines that are later excised. I’m working on a novel set in 1920s Paris at the moment, and there are two characters I absolutely loved writing who will never show up in the finished book because their story never really goes anywhere. Learning to ‘kill your darlings’ is a tough lesson for writers.

For weightier historical pieces, I do write a brief synopsis summarizing what major points I want to make over the course of the work, and that is sometimes the most tedious part of the writing process. It does help keep me on track, though, with complicated plotlines that intersect at key points in the work.

Overall, though, I really hate writing first drafts. I’m an expert woodworker, and I liken the writing of a novel to building a nice piece of furniture. Before you make it pretty, you have to bang the boards together. Writing the first draft is banging boards together, and I’m always impatient to get on with it so I can begin the real artistic process of massaging a wet hot mess of a first draft into something people would really like to read.

 

2:  What songs are most played on your Ipod?

 

Well, I don’t own one. I have a Sansa Clip lying around somewhere, but I don’t really like the feel of earbuds so I seldom listen to it except when I plug it into my stereo system. I was a genuine hippie in the old days, and lot of my ‘personal listening device’ is taken up by artists from the Laurel Canyon days—CSNY, Joni, Poco, Buffalo Springfield, yada yada yada. I’m also a pretty big Deadhead, so Jerry and the boys show up a lot.

 

 

 

3: Do you have critique partners or beta readers?

 

On occasion. For my private eye genre pieces, I hand the second draft over to my wife—a professional writer and editor. She is appropriately ruthless in critiquing my work, and has made many of my books a great deal better.

 

For longer, more intensive works, such as my upcoming historical mystery Vicar Brekonridge, I do recruit beta readers to examine the work after I’m ready to circulate it—usually on the fourth or fifth draft. Some of them have worked with me on more than one book, but most only help once, and I deeply appreciate their contributions.

 

 

4: What book are you reading now?

 

I’m about to finish one of Joe Lansdale’s Hap and Leonard novels, Bad Chili. It’s an older work from about 1997, but I’m always up for some Hap and Leonard action. When I finish it, I’ll pick up James Lee Burke’s Robicheaux, because my self-esteem is entirely too robust right now, and reading Burke always humbles me.

 

5:  How did you start your writing career?

 

In the worst possible way, and the repercussions have followed me my entire career.

In late 1999, I was beating my head against a wall trying to find a publisher for the first novel in my New Orleans-based Pat Gallegher series, Joker Poker. I’d burned out two agents and had a stack of rejection letters that would choke a hippo. I was driving home and heard a report on NPR about a new publishing process called Print On Demand, and how a startup called iUniverse was utilizing it to bring out-of-print works by people like Lawrence Block. More importantly, they were publishing new works.

At about the same time, Mystery Writers of America entered into a partnership with iUniverse to allow MWA members to publish with them free under a new imprint calls Mystery and Suspense Press.

Desperate to get Joker Poker into print, I signed up. Joker Poker was released under the MASP imprint in 2000 to relatively good reviews.

I attended the Harriet Austin Writers Conference in Athens, GA the following spring, and met Steven Brown, a writer from Greenville, SC, who owned his own publishing company, Chick Springs Press. We staffed the MWA table at the conference together and talked at length about the prospect of self-publishing. Shortly after, realizing that iUniverse hadn’t done a thing for me that I couldn’t do for myself (and being the ultimate DIYer) I tossed caution to the winds and formed my own publishing company, Barbadoes Hall Communications. I contracted with Ingram Lightning Source to produce and distribute the books and hired a cover designer from Vermont to do my artwork. For my mystery novels, I developed an imprint called Back Alley Books, and my first offering on that new imprint was the second Pat Gallegher novel, Voodoo That You Do.

I submitted it to the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Awards. A few weeks later, I receive an email from the Dennis Lynds, one of the great pulp writers from the fifties and sixties. He liked the book quite a lot, and wanted to recommend it as a finalist, but it appeared to him that it was self-published. PWA had a rule that self-published works weren’t eligible for the Shamus Award, in an attempt to avoid submissions from vanity presses. I explained that I owned my own company, and contracted for publication and cover design, etcetera, and he agreed that this might be a unique situation. He appealed to the contest chair, S.J. Rozan, who gave Voodoo the thumbs-down.

The next year, though, S.J. and PWA president Bob Randisi instituted the ‘Rick Helms Rule’, which stated that books from the various POD vanities like iUniverse, Xlibris, PublishAmerica and the like would not be eligible, but self-published books like mine would be. They even recruited me to help curate which self-publishers were eligible and which weren’t.

My next submission, another Pat Gallegher novel called Juicy Watusi, did become the first-ever self-published novel to become a Shamus Award finalist in 2003. I figured my career was ready to skyrocket. I couldn’t have been more wrong.

My fourth self-published Gallegher novel, Wet Debt, was a Shamus finalist in 2004, as was my second Eamon Gold novel Cordite Wine in 2006. I think I still hold the record for the number of self-published Shamus Finalists at four—the most recent, Brittle Karma (Eamon Gold) won the award in 2021, after it was published through a new Barbadoes Hall imprint called Black Arch Books.

I wasn’t traditionally published until my Judd Wheeler series debuted in 2010 from Five Star. Except for my Eamon Gold novels (Brittle Karma; Doctor Hate), all of my works since 2010 have been traditionally published.

As a result of years of self-publishing and small press releases, my BookScan numbers are not the stuff that sets New York editors’ hearts aquiver. Starting out the way I did probably cost me a shot at being published by one of the Big Four and a Half, but I’d be lying if I said it hasn’t been a lot of fun.

 

 

6: Tell us about your next release.

 

A Kind and Savage Place (New Arc Books, March 2022) is a broad departure from my genre crime fiction. It’s a prequel to my Judd Wheeler Series that was originally published by Five Star beginning in 2010 (Six Mile Creek; Thunder Moon; and Older Than Goodbye). That series is built around the police chief in a small North Carolina farming community that is slowly giving way to suburban sprawl from the large metropolis to the north.

 

About four years ago, shortly after Older Than Goodbye was published, I began work on the fourth book in the series. It opened with a prologue that took place in 1954, involving Judd’s father and two other friends who had comprised the offensive backfield in the local high school’s 1953 championship-winning team. The prologue stretched to almost ten thousand words, and I realized it was a book all by itself. I expanded the first twenty-two pages into almost a hundred, and the first act was complete. The fourth Judd Wheeler novel was intended to be titled A Kind and Savage Place, so I just kept that title.

 

It's 1954. The place is Prosperity, North Carolina, a small farming community in mostly rural Bliss County. Three teenagers, the 1953 championship-winning offensive backfield for Prosperity High, and lifelong friends, are unwilling participants in a horrific event that results in a young man’s death.

One of the friends harbors a tragic secret that could have prevented the crime. Divulging it would ruin his life, so he stays quiet, fully aware he will carry a stain of guilt for the rest of his life.

The three buddies go their separate ways for almost a decade, before another tragedy brings them back to Prosperity in 1968. Now in their thirties, it is a time of civil and racial unrest in America.

They discover the man who committed murder back in ’54 is now the mayor and rules the town with an autocratic iron fist. He’s backed by his own private force of sheriff's deputies and forcibly intimidates and silences any malcontents.

Worse, now he's set his sights on Congress.

A Kind and Savage Place spans half a century from 1942 to 1989 and examines the dramatic racial and societal turmoil of that period through the microcosmic lens of a flyspeck North Carolina agricultural community.

 

I’m completely stoked about this new novel, mostly because it reflects my own experiences growing up in the center of the civil rights movement in the late 1950s and the 1960s (and which, many would argue, continues to this day). I grew up in Charlotte, Charleston, and Atlanta. I saw “whites only” water fountains and bathrooms. My family ate at Lester Maddox’s Pickrick restaurant in Atlanta before he stood in the doorway with an ax handle and dared a person of color to enter, and we were disgusted when the people of Georgia later elected the bigot as governor just before we moved back to North Carolina. I witnessed a Ku Klux Klan parade in a small Georgia town in the early 1960s, and as a reporter I covered the Greensboro Klan/Nazi shootout in 1979. I witnessed the struggle for civil rights in America firsthand, and wanted to channel my experiences into a compelling story. I’m extremely proud of A Kind and Savage Place as a ripping yarn and a reflection of the events in my childhood that affected the course of my life.

A Kind and Savage Place debuts on March 1st from Level Best Books’ New Arc Books imprint.

 

Thanks for hosting me today! It was a pleasure chatting with your readers!

 




About the Author


Richard Helms is a retired college professor and forensic psychologist. He has been nominated eight times for the SMFS Derringer Award, winning it twice; seven times for the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award, with a win in 2021; twice for the ITW Thriller Award, with one win; four times for the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award with one win: and once for the Mystery Readers International Macavity Award. He is a frequent contributor to Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, along with other periodicals and short story anthologies. His story “See Humble and Die” was included in Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt’s Best American Mystery Stories 2020. A Kind and Savage Place is his twenty-second novel. Mr. Helms is a former member of the Board of Directors of Mystery Writers of America, and the former president of the Southeast Regional Chapter of MWA. When not writing, Mr. Helms enjoys travel, gourmet cooking, simracing, rooting for his beloved Carolina Tar Heels and Carolina Panthers, and playing with his grandsons. Richard Helms and his wife Elaine live in Charlotte, North Carolina.


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Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Book Blitz: The Order of the Fallen by Jacqueline Marinaro #promo #fantasy #romance #rabtbooktours @RABTBookTours
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Fantasy/Romance

Date Published: Jan. 24, 2022

Publisher: Jan-Carol Publishing, Inc.



Achaiah knew the dangers of falling to earth for the love of his human, Nev. When Nev falls for her guardian angel, Achaiah, she is unaware of the danger that their love puts her in. That's why fallen angels have one rule: Never fall in love with a human.


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Jacqueline Marinaro began her career as a therapist and college educator. Graduate school couldn’t stamp out her love of creative writing, however. Much to the chagrin of her husband, graduate school also only furthered her ability to constantly ask, “how does that make you feel?” Jacqueline lives in Florida with her wonderful husband and sweet little boy, where she enjoys the beach, reading, writing, and of course delving into the feelings of everyone she meets.


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Book Blitz: Phoenix Force: The Prequel by Susan Horsnell #promo #military #action #fiction #rabtbooktours @RABTBookTours @susanhorsnell
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The Phoenix Force Series Book 1

Covert Ops/Special Ops/Former Military

Date Published: 28 January 2022

 

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THE SERIES:

This Special Ops Force Series has one big difference…

The members are ALL kickass females.

They each have a reason to seek vengeance.

They will cut through the frustration of red tape.

Together, they will deal out justice for the victims and find it for themselves.

Together, they are PHOENIX FORCE.

This is the first book in the series introducing the team.

12 Books

11 Authors

An all-female special ops team.

Ladies who will rise from the ashes of their pasts to right a few wrongs.

Start at the beginning...

Meet the characters, who together, form a formidable team known as PHOENIX FORCE.


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USA Today Bestselling Author and International Best Selling Author - Susan Horsnell writes in many sub-genres of romance, sweet and steamy, under her own name and two pen names-Susan R. Horsnell (Steamy Romance Only) and Bestselling Author - Olivia Ellen Turner (LGBTQ+ Romance).

Strong social themes are a feature and her experiences as a nurse and Naval wife play a big part in many stories.

She grew up in Manly, NSW, Australia and has travelled Australia and the World on postings with her Naval Officer husband of 47 years.

She lives with her husband, and fur baby – Gemma-Jean, a one-year-old Jack Russell Terrier, in a small village in the mountains in Queensland, Australia.

Since retiring a nursing career of 37 years, she has been able to indulge her passion for writing.

The family enjoys travelling the country with their RV when not at home renovating.


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Book Blitz: Thomas Jefferson Family Secrets by William G. Hyland, Jr. #promo #giveaway #nonfiction #biography #history #rabtbooktours @RABTBookTours @Williamhyland12
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Nonfiction / Biography / History

Date Published: 2-1-22

Publisher: Palmetto Publishing / Blackstone Publishing



A fascinating biography of Thomas Jefferson that presents an entirely new and provocative look at the final years of his life, as seen through the eyes of his most trusted family confidants. A powerful profile based on fresh research and unpublished memoirs.



About the Author

A Virginia native, William G. Hyland Jr. is the author of four widely praised historical biographies, including “In Defense Of Thomas Jefferson” (St. Martin’s/Thomas Dunne Books), which was nominated for the Virginia Literary Award. He is a seasoned litigation attorney with a national law firm and nearly thirty years of high profile trial experience. He is also a former Adjunct Professor of Law at Stetson University College of Law. His professional lectures have included speeches at the National Archives and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Hyland is a member of the Virginia and New York Historical Societies and serves on the Board of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society. Mr. Hyland holds a B.A. from the University of Alabama and a J.D. from Samford University. Before law school, Mr. Hyland held a Top Security clearance and worked for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.


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Monday, March 28, 2022

Virtual Book Tour: Not Paid Eleven Cents an Hour to Think by Jim Gibson #blogtour #memoir #nonfiction #interview #rabtbooktours @RABTBookTours @PublishingAcorn
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Memoir (Military)

Date Published: January 22, 2022 (Hardcover coming March 2022)

Publisher: Acorn Publishing



Jim Gibson was flying to the other side of the world, barreling toward what he feared could be the end of his life. In 1968, five hundred American soldiers were dying every week in Vietnam. Outfitted in brand new, scratchy, combat jungle fatigues and boots, the twenty-year-old Army Private and trained Combat Medic found himself on a plane to a place he had never been, to fight a war he didn’t believe in. Young men like him were being drafted against their will every day, called into a war that made no sense to them. Vietnam, they thought, was a war orchestrated by relics; old white men and corrupt politicians willing to expend countless lives for personal gain. Still, it was no use to resist. There was nowhere to go, and the FBI made sure there was no place to hide.




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Can you tell us a little about the process of getting this book published? How did you come up with the idea and how did you start?

I had never written or published a book before. It took me several years to write it before I considered ways to share what I had written with the world. Several friends of mine, who are not professional writers, had told their stories and done so, sometimes well and sometimes not, by going the inexpensive self-publishing route. In the beginning I was thinking I would do the same but even though I could see that they had done their best to create the best books that they could, they weren’t really that professionally done. I wanted my book to look good, so I decided to look around for alternatives.

In the retirement community where I live, we have lots of social clubs. There is one called “The Village Publishing Club”. One day I contacted the club’s president, explained what I was up to, and asked her if she could recommend a good publishing company. She gave me Holly’s phone number and that’s when I began my relationship with the team known as Acorn Publishing, LLC.; I’ve not looked back since, it’s been a great choice.

 

 

 

What surprised you most about getting your book published?

I really loved writing my book which came easily, but was surprised upon entering the publishing of it, that I was dealing with an entirely different animal. It required me to get off my butt and work; to do a lot that reminded me of how working used to be before entering into the world of retirement. Acorn’s process is a hybrid sort of thing where authors and their professionals work together and interact to create the best of things. I’m an older guy who appreciates how that challenge has been good for me. I am working on it.

 

 

Tell us a little about what you do when you aren’t writing

When I retired and got out of the working world, I felt so relieved. No more stress. I was now free to be just who I wanted to be. My kids gave me a new set of golf clubs thinking that I, as a newly retired senior, would want to take up golf to take up my spare time. After a few golf experiences I realized that if I was going to be any good at all in that sport, I would surely have to spend a whole lot of my life dedicated to it. I decided against it, so I turned to the love of my life which had always been painting. Taking up a pencil and crayon when I was barely more than a toddler was a natural thing for me. Art and painting have always occupied most of my life, but the creation of it was interrupted when the pandemic arrived, and I could no longer work in the art studio. It was then that I turned my creative energies towards writing.

 

 

As a published author, what would you say was the most pivotal point of your writing life?

Though I have always thought of myself as a visual artist, there was a time many years ago when I unexpectantly experienced a rush of critical appreciation for things I wrote, this shortly after I had returned from the Vietnam War. It was a college English and Composition class. I received the grade of A-Plus from my professor for my efforts. Looking back on it all, I think that reward kept coming back to me; informing me that I might consider writing.

 

 

 

How many unpublished and half-finished books do you have?

I look forward to publishing more works. I write non-fiction stories, but it is my intention to render things as realistically and poetically – creatively - as I can.

 

 

 


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Jim Gibson was born in Santa Barbara, California in 1948. Growing up he was fascinated by the world around him, a curiosity that drove his love of reading at a young age. He has carried this passion for reading and desire for understanding throughout his whole life. In Not Paid Eleven Cents an Hour to Think, Jim recalls his fourteen months in Vietnam as an Army Medic and ambulance driver. In exploring his past and the lessons he learned, he considers what we must do to carry on. Mr. Gibson, now a happily retired grandfather, occasionally teaches abstract painting and other art classes in his community. He resides in Orange County, California.


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Book Blitz: I'm a Contract Killer by Andrew Segal #promo #giveaway #thriller #noir #rabtbooktours @RABTBookTours @HappyLDNpress
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The Aberration Series: Book 2

Thriller / Noir

Date Published: 03-07-2022

Publisher: Happy London Press



This is the second book in the Aberrations Series, a collection of ten new, short stories to tease and tickle.

How would you feel if you came face to face with a contract killer? I did, and it formed the basis for my title story .

But then, most, if not all of my yarns have a foundation in something I've heard, read or personally experienced.

I've kept a diary, for example, but have not had as macabre an experience as the old man in my tale, Dear Diary .

One might wonder, for example, whether, given the chance, the leopard might ever change its spots? Read my take on it and find out for yourself. This story was based on an actual event involving my wife, when she was just six years old. Her mother was so appalled by what happened, she refused to ever speak about it, or hear about it for the rest of her life.

I am not, and have never been a Gigolo, but decided to have our hero from Book 1 meet his comeuppance in Book 2 when he meets a Courtesan, who tumbles his well-kept secret. It's all there for you to appreciate.

In this second Book in the series, I've also looked at taxidermy, car crime and conditions under which an innocent journalist might be tortured and imprisoned in Vietnam? All based on personal experience, or else events I've read about in the press which struck me as being worthy of a view to be expressed in a short story .

These are just a few tasters of a collection of tales I hope you'll enjoy reading as much as I've enjoyed writing them.

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My inspirations have come from real people, events or situations that have presented themselves. Titles like, I am a Contract Killer, I am a Gigolo, Death Zone, License to Kill, are all based on my own lifetime experiences, questions asked, incidents occurring.

Let me be reassuring, thus-far, nobody has been murdered on my watch. But the notion gave rise to the impetus to write my first murder mystery, The Lyme Regis Murders. Could I make the jump after years of writing macabre short stories to a full length drama? That familiar beating in the gut, said, ‘Yes, try it. Give it a go.’

And so to that cosy coastal town where nothing untoward ever happens. Or perhaps it does. The author seeks to shatter notions, change people’s perceptions, spoil long held views. That was my intention in entering into the world of crime thrillers. I’ve found that ‘nice’ people are not always what they seem. The helpless can be transformed into the most dangerous, the most dangerous become the most harmless. It’s all up to the writer and what they’re hoping to achieve.

For me there have been 10 children’s books, 4 books of short stories and so far, three novels, with a fourth in the mixer.

Whilst a short story might be written with a flurry of adrenalin in the space of a few hours, a book will need more than just a flash of creativity. It will need perseverance, discipline and dogged determination.

But then, isn’t that what is required of every ambition?


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Friday, March 25, 2022

Release Blitz: The Extraordinary World of Cats by Chandrakant Bhonsle #promo #releaseday #giveaway #childrensbook #rabtbooktours @RABTBookTours @AuthorParul @bhonsleauthors
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Children's Books

Date Published: 03-26-2022

Publisher: Dixi Books


The Extraordinary World of Cats is an ode to the magnificent lives enjoyed by wild cats in our fast disappearing forest. The book makes an attempt to introduce some of the fascinating big cats of the animal kingdom to children around the world. Where do these cats live? Why are they so special? What are their defining characteristics? What sets them apart from each other? Why are they under threat? Why must they be saved from extinction? The Extraordinary World of Cats makes an appeal to all kids to love these marvellous felines and cherish their existence while they can.


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Born in India, Chandrakant Bhonsle is a qualified lawyer and a writer currently based in the Netherlands. He is the author of the children’s picture book “The World Belongs to Animals”, which is the part of the official reading lists of leading wildlife organisations such as Panthera and PETA among others.


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Sale Blitz: Fall of Titan by H.G. Ahedi #promo #onsale #scifi #fantasy #rabtbooktours @RABTBookTours @BookBuzznet @harbeerahedi
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Realm, Book 1

Sci-fi Fantasy


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In the twenty-fourth century, a sophisticated security system called the perimeter guards the outer rim of the solar system. Governed by Titan, a powerful space station, the perimeter is almost impenetrable. Emmeline Augury, an astrophysics cadet on Titan, believes in a family folklore about a mythical device with unlimited power. Her search uncovers an ancient plaque, which reveals a star map of a secret network of portals. But what begins as a scientific adventure turns into a dangerous manhunt when hostile aliens called Orias attacks Titan. Their queen threatens to slaughter everyone unless she is given the device. When the fate of Titan and the seven realms hangs in the balance, Emmeline must make a choice. Will she save her home or the device?


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Poseidon

Realm, Book 2

After the Fall, all is left is blood and revenge.

The destruction of the perimeter, and the vanishing of Titan and Prometheus has left the Realm open to invaders. With a skeleton fleet guarding the outer rims of the solar system, all hopes of defeating the Orias queen have diminished. Now it's about survival. But in a corner of cold dark space, hope lingers.

Emmeline Augury was born to break the rules, and now a fugitive who has nothing to lose and driven by revenge, she conquers all odds and locates the second piece of the mythical device.

The game is on. The pawns are set. As the power of the mythical device unravels itself, who will win? A young girl with her heart set on destroying a being as powerful as the gods themselves? Or the queen who was born to rule the seven realms? The answers lie in the wake of the Poseidon.

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H.G Ahedi holds a PhD in biomedical sciences and is a fictional writer. She spends a lot of time writing and when she is bored of her desk; she wants to hop on a plane and travel the world. As that is not always possible she explores local Sydney beaches and parks and enjoys a nice cup of coffee.


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